Delivery feed mechanism for mailing-machines.



F. V. MOORE. DELIVERY FEED MECHANISM FOR MAILING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.12, 1912.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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DELIVERY FEED MECHANISM FOR MAILING MACHINES. APPLIOATION FILED JAN.12. 19 12.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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DELIVERY FEED MECHANISM FOR MAILING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12. 1912.

1,060,276. Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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DELIVERY FEED MEGHANISM FOR MAILING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.12. 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK V. MOORE, .OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CURRIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

Application filed January 12, 1912. Serial No. 670,943.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, FRANK V. MOORE, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Chicago, Cook county,'Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Delivery Feed Mechanism for Mailing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to mailing machines of that character in which means are provided for folding and wrapping the magazines, pasting the wrappers, and then addressing the wrapped magazines.

My invention. relates more particularly to the means for feeding the magazines from the pasting mechanism to the addressing mechanism. This has been done in various ways, but the feed mechanism heretofore employed for this purpose has not been entirely satisfactory.

The object of my invention is, therefore, to provide a novel and highly efficient feed mechanism for transferring the wrapped *r'na azine's' from the ast-in mechanism to b the addrossing mechanism of a mailing machine of this general character.

To this and other useful ends, my invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of that portion of a mailing machine which involves the pasting and addressing devices, showing a. feed mechanism embodying the rinciples ofmy invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on, line 22 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical transable, known or approved character, having an ejector a adapted to deliver the wrapped magazines to the inner end of the table-'B. The outer end of this table has an addressing mechanism C of any suitable, known or -tate the rolls 6 on said shafts.

approved character. As there are various well-known forms ofpasting, and also addressing, mechanism, no further description thereof is necessary.

The feed mechanism for transferring the wrapped magazines from the pasting mec ianism to the addressing mechanism is constructed as followsz-Bearings b are mounted on the under side of the table B for the two shafts b which extend transversely of the machine and are spaced 9. suitable distance apart. The said table is also provided with four slots b in which roare mutilated for one half their circumferencethat is to say, are reduced in diameter to that extent, whereby each roll is in effect only a segment of a roll. The two bearings b are mounted on the top of the table, and outside of the said slots and rolls. Each said bearing b has upright end portions which are provided with longitudlnal slots 6 each of which is intersected by a transverse slot b. The ends of the arbors b are flattened to engage the slots 6, and the ends of the two arbors are connected by bars I) that rest in the slots 6. Upright rods b have their lower ends fastened in the bearings b, and extend upward through openings in the bars I). Springs I) are interposed between the tops of said bars I) and the nuts o on the upper ends of said rods, whereby the bars I) and arbors b are held yieldingly down. The arbors b are provided withenlargements 5" having circumferential grooves b". The rolls b are.

mounted to rotate on said enlargements b, and are provided with screws b that engage said grooves, whereby said rolls are held against lateral displacement. Each To keep the wrapped magazines down flat uponthe table B, the arbors b are provided with parallel shoes or runners b that bear upon the magazines as they pass along. The

65 These rolls .gage the same sprocket chain 6 which latter is driven by a sprocket I) on the drive shaft' I), an idler sprocket 6 being disposed in the slack or bend of the said chain below the second set of feed rolls. \Vith this arrangement the rolls are operated and the relation between them is preserved. As

only-v the lower rolls are positively driven,

the upper rolls operate as idlers, and are rotated by engagement with the passing magazines. In a certain sense, the upper rolls are mounted to float on the stream of folded and wrapped magazines passing from the pasting mechanism to the addressing mechanism.

With the arrangement thus shown and described, the magazines are taken from the pasting mechanism and moved or fed along in an orderly and certain manner to the addressing mechanism. As the feed mechanism for doing this is of a rotary character, it follows that the machine may be run at high speed without objectionable results in the feeding of the magazines to the addressing mechanism. The mutilated rolls I) are preferably roughened on their engaging surfaces to more effectively feed the magazines. As stated, the first set of rolls releases the magazine a moment before it is taken hold of by the second set of rolls. This mode of operation gives good results, but the rolls may be adjusted and spaced in various ways and in accordance with the character of the work. Also, any suitable number of sets of feed rolls may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I do not, of course, limit myself to the exact construction shown and described, nor

, to the use of my invention in a mailing ma- 2; In a mailing machine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls. and a table across which the wrapped magazines are moved by said rolls, the upper rolls having non-rotary arbors, enlargements on said arbors, each enlargement having a circumferential groove, and means engaging said grooves to hold the said upper rolls against lateral displacement, but permitting rotation thereon.

3. In a mailing machine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls, and a table across which the wrapped magazines are moved by said rolls, the upperrolls havingnon-rotary arbors, supports for the ends of said ar ors, preventing rotation thereof, bars resting on the said arbors, each bar reaching from one arbor to another, and springs for yieldingly holding said bars against displacement.

4. In a, mailing machine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls, a table across which the wrapped magazines are moved by said rolls, the upper rolls having non-rotary arbors, enlargements on said arbors, each enlargement having a circumferential groove, meagg engaging said grooves to hold the said-upper rolls against lateral displacement, but permitting rotation thereon, and shoes in the form of runners yieldingly mounted on said arbors and beam? down on the magazines.

5. n a mailing machine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls, a table across which the wrapped magazines are moved by said rolls, the upper rolls having non-rotary arbors, supports for the ends of said arbors, preventing rotation thereof, bars rest-ing on the said arbors, each bar reaching from one arbor to another, springs for yieldingly holding said bars against displacement, and shoes in the form of runners yie'ldingly mounted on said arbors and bearing down on the magazines.

6. In a mailing machine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls, and a table across which the wrapped magazines are moved by said rolls, the upper rolls having non-rotary arbors, enlargements on said arbors, each enlargement having a circumferential groove, and means engaging said grooves to hold the said upper rolls against lateral displacement, but permitting rotation thereon, each said arbOr being free to rise bodily or at either end thereof.

7. In a mailing magazine, a feed mechanism for the wrapped magazines, comprising a plurality of sets of feed rolls, a table across which the wrapped n'iagaziues are moved by said rolls, the upper rolls having non-rotary arbors, supports for'the ends of Signed by me at Chicago, 111., this 9th.

said arbors, preventing rotation thereof, day of January 1912. bars resting on the said arbors each bar 7 reaching from one arbor to. anbther, and FRANK MOORE- springs for yieldingly holding said bars YVitnesses:

against displacement, each said arbor being GEO. F. SCHMIDT, free to rise bodily or at either end thereof. E. H. CLEGG. 

